RobynPoleDancer
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This is fun, I’ll try to make a video later!
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This is definitely a thing! You need handspring/aysha top hand to be what is your outside hand on your straddle invert. Make sure your hips are really high, by the pole and your hands so that when you take the inside hand off the balance stays right.
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Brass Monkey – The phrase “so cold, you’ll freeze the balls off a brass monkey” – Some references say that the brass triangles that supported stacks of iron cannon-balls on sailing ships were called monkeys and that in cold weather the metal contracted, causing the balls to fall off.
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If I was to recommend somewhere, I’d say Ecole de Pole too.
But have a look at http://www.polepages.com for a pretty comprehensive list (with area postcodes within the London area). I’ve not updated the map in a while (sorry, it’s just such a big job), but the list was updated this week.
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The "D-Pole" is most definitely the knock-off 45mm X-Pole. There is no such thing as an "unbranded X-Pole". It is a FAKE and a COPY.
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If you're doing 2-arm version, make sure your elbows are "stacked" so the inside of both elbows are making equal contact.
1 hand will now be on your opposite shoulder, the other under the arm on the other side. You can use these to hold for now to feel more stable.
You've just made a triangle with your arms, yes? Lean back / try to get your back further away from the pole, you should be able to see the tops of your shoulders, don't hunch. Don't pull IN or you won't create the push/pull effect.
PUSH your belly forward to counter this – it is easier to start if you get your belly to grip too, but later you won't need it as much.
You might sink into it as your take your legs off, which is why it's harder from the floor I find. -
THE List
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I had a Labral tear (cartilage) from a partial dislocation. I now have a screw holding it all together.
I also had a hugely inflamed Supraspinatus (RC) and Long Head of Biceps. As well as a Bone Bruise (one step off a fracture) that was never explained from the injury cause!My problem running up to surgery was that I kept telling myself that "it couldn't be that bad" and "it would get better with rest" (except I refused to take time off work, and even though I was working 1 handed, it wasn't really "rest").
Being strong meant that I still had a lot of movement range, and it stayed in socket 99% of the time. It was only when I was under anaesthetic that the muscle was able to relax enough to show the true damage!
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Wanna see my shoulder surgery pics too? I was always going to need surgery after I injured myself – but I kept trying to tell myself that I "just needed to rest it" hahaha. nope.
4 weeks is nothing. 2 months only able to use 1 hand while I waited for surgery, 3 months completely off everything while I recovered, followed by 2 more months 1 handed as I built up strength and flexibility again. A year went by between me being able to do a handspring in my sleep, to even attempting it again.
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Autumn – what did you think of the PDC channel? I'm curating it at the moment. I've still got to complete level 5 moves to make them properly searchable, but levels 1-4 are pretty much done.
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You can slide your bottom hand down and go into cross ankle release
Mostly I twist and fold my mid-section to reach the pole above, and I grip in a cup-grip as I can reach earlier.
p.s. I've got REALLY short arms and CANNOT reach the pole with both hands in these tricks!
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Sounds like the screws that are in the lower part of the adjuster are loose. You should be able to see them if you remove the adjuster cover.
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I've used X-Poles at that height with that many bits, on a concrete ceiling.
It will probably be fine, just no pole-killer spins!
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As long as you're only using 3 pieces (A-Piece + 1000mm + extension) then I'd think you'll just be OK at that height. I possibly wouldn't do any full-on spins onto it. (it's the flex from the sideways force that causes the pole to move, since when it bends, it get "shorter")
If you hadn't already bought it, I'd have suggested a "custom" competition pole, as these are just 2 pieces, and reinforced, so there's less flex.Strangely, the old-style screw-together X-Poles were safer at this height, less flex somehow.